Articles tagged as 26-2nd-avenue

• Happy 50th Anniversary, ISKCON!

  In 1965, a 69 year-old spiritual teacher from India arrives in the West and settles among the hippies of New York’s Lower East Side. From a tiny storefront, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami starts a revolution of consciousness influencing tens of thousands in the US and worldwide. But what happens to his spiritual movement , the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), after their charismatic leader’s passing? Will it survive? Will it change? Can an ancient Eastern religious tradition be relevant in the modern 21st century?

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  Walking Monk Retraces ISKCON’s Journey for 50th

  From September 20^th to November 10^th in 2015, Bhaktimarga Swami walked from Boston’s Commonwealth Pier, where ISKCON Founder Srila Prabhupada first reached the U.S. in 1965, to Butler Pennsylvania, where he stayed with sponsors the Agarwal family, to New York City, where he registered ISKCON in 1966. In New York, Bhaktimarga concluded his 907-mile walk by chanting under the famous “Hare Krishna tree” in Tompkins Square Park, where Prabhupada led some of the first public kirtans in the Western World.

• Beginning at Second Avenue

  A documentary about Srila Prabhupada's beginning of ISKCON at 26 Second Avenue. NY. The film is based on interview with Satsvarupa dasa Goswami, one of the most senior of Srila Prabhupada''s disciples who is also the author of the biography 'Srila Prabhupada Lilamrita". ISKCON Cinema, BBTI and other copyrighted material used with permission. To arrange public viewing please report to sdg@sdgonline.org and visit http://www.sdgonline.org

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  ISKCON 50 Fundraiser Held to Save 26 2nd Avenue

  For years, devotees have been struggling to hold on to 26 2^nd Avenue, the small storefront in New York City where ISKCON was born. And a steep rent increase this year threatened to take it away from them, just as they were celebrating ISKCON’s 50^th anniversary. But on Sunday June 5^th, supporters banded together for a special ISKCON 50 fundraiser, and the historic storefront is safe – for now.

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  ISKCON 50th Anniversary Festival at 26 Second Avenue

  Most devotees know that 26 Second Avenue was the first Hare Krishna temple outside India, the place from 1966-68 where Srila Prabhupada performed the first initiations, the place where ISKCON’s first generation of leaders were trained.

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  Hare Krishna Movement Celebrates 50th Anniversary in 2016

  On a hot summer day, the 13^th of July, the Hare Krishna movement was born. Few noticed the event.

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  Mukunda Goswami's Book Wins Prestigious Book Award

  Mukunda Goswami's Miracle on Second Avenue has won a prestigious book award in the United States. Each year the National Indie Excellence Book Awards are given out in many categories to the best books by independent publishing houses.

• Mukunda Goswami on Miracle on Second Avenue
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  Mukunda Goswami’s “Miracle on Second Avenue” Set for June Release

  ISKCON guru Mukunda Goswami’s long-awaited memoir of the early days of the Hare Krishna Movement in New York, San Francisco, and London—entitled Miracle on Second Avenue—was ceremonially “offered” to the Deities of Sri-Sri Pancha-Tattva at ISKCON’s headquarters in Mayapur, West Bengal on February 23rd.